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Too much traffic for dashboard-mounted GPS units

Thursday, March 4, 2010

An excerpt from my Vegas Seven column. This week, why prices for dashboard-mounted GPS units are crashing.
A quick search of Amazon.com returns several fine models, most below $150 and many priced below $100. Two major players, Garmin and TomTom, dominate these price points, offering models at a steep discount compared with this time last year, [...]

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The future of TV and the death of cable

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Originally published in Vegas Seven
Web-enabled TVs and streaming video suggest the days of paying for cable are numbered
I have two devices in my living room that stream movies and prime time TV shows straight from the Internet to my TV—and no, the setup wasn’t sourced from a scene in The Matrix.
One of the devices [...]

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Amazon vs. Apple: Don’t cry for book publishers

Monday, February 1, 2010

Amazon and Apple are apparently in an epic battle to sell e-books that will cost book buyers more money than what they currently pay. Who do we root for in this battle?
It started because Apple has big plans to make the new iPad the e-reading device of choice, turning the popular Amazon Kindle into digital [...]

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